bowsplit

bowsplitn [Var, perh by folk-etym, of bowsprit]

2000ShoresTangier Is. 188 Chesapeake Bay, The last item is the Islanders’ rendering of bowsprit, which they call “bowsplit.”2009WhiteSkipjack 162 Chesapeake Bay, It was diff’rent in the Old Man’s day. . . On my father’s skipjack, we competed with each other. . . In a gale, I’d be the first one out on the bowsplit to reef the jib.

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